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Citizenship and Immigration committee  What we know for this particular group is that 636 people have accessed interim federal health services. The highest number of services have been in relation to medications and to vision care.

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Dawn Edlund

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That would be the government choice at the time.

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Dawn Edlund

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —people who have come to individualized counselling. What the Canadian Mental Health Association has told us, though, is that in situations like this you have the initial euphoria when people arrive in Canada, and then their mental health needs resurface six to 24 months in. These people are partially getting services from the provinces and territories, and partially coming to us.

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Dawn Edlund

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There was the resettlement of Iraqis who were outside of Iraq, the commitment of 23,000 we did over the course of several years under the previous government. We didn't know it because we don't track it, but that did bring Yazidis to Canada.

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Dawn Edlund

Citizenship and Immigration committee  This is the same as what's available for all resettled refugees. We have the programming in place for resettlement, which involves income support over the period of a year. There's another program called the joint assistance sponsorship where, for particularly vulnerable families, that income support can be extended to a two-year period.

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Dawn Edlund

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not sure it was a question of direction, but rather a recognition, from everything we learned from the Germans and others, that we had to make sure those types of supports were available, and then working collaboratively with the provinces and the territories so that our programming is complementary.

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Dawn Edlund

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Of course the health provision is a matter for the provinces, not for the federal government. Within our sphere of jurisdiction, we've made sure, for the interim federal health program, that we have adequate resources available and the medical services available.

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Dawn Edlund

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we can do so. Corinne, do you have something you'd like to say now ?

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Dawn Edlund

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can speak specifically to what we have seen in the interim federal health program context.

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Dawn Edlund

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. Up until now, there has not been a large number of individuals who have received individualized counselling.

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Dawn Edlund

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would be less than five—

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Dawn Edlund

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of the individuals who we've been counting as Yazidi, they're people who have self-identified and who have come through the UNHCR referral process as Yazidi. I'm not aware, of the folks who have been referred to us, of any other group of people who didn't want to identify themselves.

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Dawn Edlund

Citizenship and Immigration committee  From August 2014 forward...?

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Dawn Edlund

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Let me just make sure I have the right year.

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Dawn Edlund

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Part of it is that it will be difficult because until we started the specific operation for resettling Yazidis, we did not identify people by ethnicity or religion. We know from our resettlement of 23,000 Iraqis that we ended up resettling Yazidis, and that's how we ended up with the core communities here in Canada.

November 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Dawn Edlund